RMF2010 Abstracts
Session: 28 - Tuesday 6th July evening (20.30 - 22.00)
Title: In conversation: Michael Agar, Ethknoworks
Name: Nigel Gilbert
Affiliation: NCRM SIMIAN node
Abstract Details
Mike Agar has worked for decades to articulate, theorize, and apply ethnography, from early days when it was called "just journalism" to now as it becomes mainstream with the critique of linear causal static social research. Phenomenology/pragmatics provides the base, complexity the formalism, human universals the theory, language the public surface, and translation writ large the goal. His books include The Professional Stranger, Language Shock, Speaking of Ethnography, and Dope Double Agent. More information about him and his recent work is available at http://www.ethknoworks.com.